Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intervention for Malaria Control in Rural Areas in China

Abstract

Malaria can be prevented at the individual level by taking personal protections. However, effective preventiveaction is a result of public health programs that adequately teach preventive measures to the population. Thisstudy was carried out in 2007 to evaluate the knowledge on malaria control and prevention and to evaluate theeffects of intervention for malaria control in rural community in China. An interventional study followed approximately 1971 randomly selected respondents over a period of fourmonths. According to the level of endemicity of the areas, this particular study was carried out in a ruralcommunity. Two surveys were performed for the study in point. Demographic and socioeconomic variableswere used as predictor variables in logistic regression analysis.Different patterns of malaria behavior were found in the closely situated households and at the school level.Gender, age, length of residence time in the areas, and health seeking behaviors was found to be statisticallysignificant predictors of health behaviors (P <0.001). The likelihood between male and female to admit thatmalaria is a threat for human health was 96.3% and 97.1% respectively, (Odds Ratio = 0.782; 95% ConfidenceInterval 0.458, 1.335; P-value = 0.368). The use of mosquito nets was approximately evenly split betweengenders (OR = 0.813; 95% C.I.: 0.645, 1.025; P = 0.080).Public health campaigns through iterative actions should be maintained in the region to strengthen the awarenessof the population for malaria prevention and control.

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